Chapter 651: Chapter 472 Another one… again?
“Peep peep!” Sky Fortress reported that Lu Yuan was panicking, his actions erratic and jumpy, and it called out dissatisfied.
Lu Yuan was actually desperately worried and casually responded: “Oh, it was discovered in some big lake?”
“You guys have done well, now go out and see if there’s anything similar…”
To tell the truth, the Insect Clan Army of a hundred thousand, each with a keen sense of detection, actually had better reconnaissance abilities than humans themselves.
After receiving praise, Sky Fortress, contented, even brought along a bunch of underlings and flew away like a swarm of wasps.
Now, only Lu Yuan and the three Worm Kings remained, staring at each other.
The Worm Kings, although intelligent, couldn’t comprehend the gravity of the situation for a while.
After all, in their cognition, as long as the King and Queen were served well, the state of human cities didn’t really matter.
And Lu Yuan knew that he couldn’t rely much on the Insect Race; he had to trust some people, otherwise, scouting the entire city alone was impossible.
He quickly identified a few reliable candidates.
“Hai Zhiyun, where are you?”
“I’m on the 17th floor of the Computer Complex!” Hai Zhiyun quickly replied via cell phone.
“Come to the bathroom window.”
Brother Yun had just reached the window when he was abruptly snatched away by the Greedy Demon God.
Under the terrifying pressure, Hai Zhiyun’s hair stood on end; what was this thing! It looked like a wooden robot, but just the sight of the red glow in its eye sockets filled him with panic.
“Gr… Great Commander?”
“It’s me… I’m piloting the Greedy Demon God.”
Immediately after, Lu Yuan quickly activated Different Space and said urgently, “Listen carefully, there might be a [Demon] that has infiltrated our city.”
“Ah?!” Hai Zhiyun, initially curious about the Greedy Demon God’s drastically different powerful aura, was shocked to the point of perspiring through his clothes.
How did a natural disaster suddenly appear?
Lu Yuan hurriedly said: “You should be aware of the risks, but with a population of millions, I simply can’t find the suspect.”
“We have to rely on big data AI now to analyze the abnormal population… Remember, don’t alert the enemy, the [Demon] is intelligent, once it knows we are looking for it, we’ll never find it. We must kill it in one fell swoop!”
Hai Zhiyun was sweating buckets, how could a young man withstand this pressure?
On second thought, even his own sister could be taken over by a [Demon], and his legs went weak.
The terrifying presence of suspicious characters from all around surged up to him.
“I… I understand… I’ll immediately mobilize the supercomputers to analyze the city’s population.”
“You must be careful, don’t slip up, don’t trust anyone else! If you die unnaturally, how can we find the murderer? We don’t even know which stage it’s in.”
Hai Zhiyun sweated from his forehead: “Then why do you trust me? What if I am also a [Demon]…”
Lu Yuan said: “[Demons] find it hard to completely replace you in a short amount of time. You act as a human computer every day, no one can replace that work.”
“If it wants to take over, it would choose the person with the lowest risk, who doesn’t have complicated Divine Skills.”
“Otherwise, if the powers and the individual don’t match, it’s easy to expose yourself.”
“So even if it has the intelligence of a [Demon], it can’t compete with me in the field of supercomputing!!” Hai Zhiyun spoke earnestly and seriously, “But it will take time, I’ve never done this type of data analysis work before, I may have to design an entirely new algorithm…”
“I understand, you don’t need to be too anxious.”
After finishing the conversation, Lu Yuan deactivated Different Space and stuffed Hai Zhiyun back by the window.
And this young man had some mental resilience, pretending to have used the bathroom before re-emerging.
Right after, Lu Tiantian was called out from the High-risk Supernatural Research Laboratory, and Different Space was activated for a conversation.
“If a [Demon] has taken over one of us, is there a way to detect it?” Lu Yuan didn’t waste words and got straight to the point.
The High-risk Laboratory had been researching [Demons] for some years now, with meager results, but they did have some experience.
Lu Tian was first shocked, then her pupils dilated, instinctively replying, “If the takeover is complete, there’s basically no way.”
“Because this kind of takeover acts on the soul; thus any conventional diagnostic measures like X-rays or CT scans are ineffective, and it’s capable of devouring the memories of the host. It’s a very perfect replacement. Like me, if I were replaced, it would be impossible to differentiate based on personality, intelligence, or memory.”
“What about Divine Skills? Can they be inherited?”
Lu Tian frowned: “If it’s a Divine Skill that’s mostly physical in nature, some can be inherited; if it’s mostly soul-based, then it can’t be.”
“Of course, I’m not too sure about the final outcome; research on this anomaly is extremely difficult, we don’t have enough experimental data.”
“When the [Demon] takes over, isn’t there a clump of viscous metallic substance? Can’t that be detected?” Lu Yuan frowned and asked.
“That’s the core of the [Demon], that part of power will disperse into every cell, this idealistic element is analogous to Spark Energy…everyone has it, so it can’t be detected. If it were that easy to detect, would it still be considered a natural disaster?” Lu Tian licked her dry lips, her face pale, “You mean…”